Improvement in hominy-mills



COOM-BS L GRAY.

lHominy VMill.

No. 98,565. Patented Jan'y 4, 1870.

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WILLIAM vC. OOOMBS AND JAMES M. GRAY, OF MEMPHIS, INDIANA.

Lette'rs Patent No. 98,565, dated Ja-mary 4, 1870.

4 IMPIRO'V'EMENT IN HOMINY-MILLS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

T o all whom it may concern Be it known that we, WILLIAM O. CooMBs and JAMES M. GRAY, of Memphis, in the county of Clark,

and in the State of Indiana, have invented certain ew and useful Improvements in Hominy-Mills; and do hereby declare that the following. is arfull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this speclfication.

The nature of ou invention consists in the construction and general arrangement of a homiuynill.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our invention appertains, to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe its construct/ion and operation, referringto the annexed drawings, in which- Figure lis a plan view of our mill, the lid being thrown open, and

Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same. i

A represents the frame of the mill, in the upper portion of which is placed a semi-cylindrical receptacle, B, the concave bottom of which is provided with a series of slots, a a, throughout one-half of the same.

The other half of said bot-tom is provided with a door, O, through which the honiny, when cut., is discharged into the drawer D below.

g Any dirt that may be inA with the corn, and any i meal that might be formed, is discharged through the slots u a, and falls down upon an inclined board E, dropping out on the outside of the mill. l

Across the centre of the recoptacle B is a shaft o cylinder, G,-iu whichare inserted knives H H, said knives being-provided with 'threaded bolts or screws for insertion in the shaft or cylinder.

On one end of the receptacle B is placed a series' knives, I I, so that the cyllnder will have one suchv series'on each side.

The two series of knives I I are so placed, one lwith the edges down and the other up, that when the shaft G is revolved, the ,edges of the knives l-I H will meet the .edges of said series of knives, and thus cut up 'the corn.

On each side of the lid J is a ventilator, K, formed of a perforated plate or wire gauze, covering an aperture therein, as seen in fig. 2. i

VVe are awa-re that the devices herein described, taken separately, are not new, and therefore lay no claim to them as such. i

Having thus fully described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire to secure Iby Letters, Patent, is-,-

The combination and arrangement of the frame A, slotted cylinder' B J, knives II, ventilators KK, shaft G, knives H H, inclined board E, and drawer D, all constructed as described, and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing, we have hereunto set our hands, this 6th day of November, 1869.

`WILLAIAM O. COOMBS. J AMES- M. GRAY.

Witnesses J AMnsfM. BownL, RICHARD MELOY. 

